The Five Love Languages of Children

Jan 28–29, 2008 - comments: 6

You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it, she will not behave as if she is loved. In raising children everything depends on the love relationship between parent and child.

Today our focus is on one extremely important aspect of parenting—learning to meet your child’s need for love. Well-known marriage counselor and best-selling author of twelve books including The Five Love Languages, Dr. Gary Chapman is with us to discuss his book The Five Love Languages of Children.

Gary says, “It is very helpful if parents will, first of all, discover what their own primary love language is. That’s one part — parents discovering each other’s love language and choosing to speak that language. The other part, of course, is parents learning the love language of the children. We all have unconscious parenting patterns that we have developed in life. I think many of those patterns do not take into account the child’s love language. If we can discover the child’s love language and keep this in mind in our parenting patterns, it should help.”

topic(s): Family, Parenting

6 comments

1 On Jun 25th, 2007, at 12:25pm, Karen Johnston wrote:

Mr Chapman,
I am going to start working with a young women with 2 small boys. I have the book The five Love languages of Children. Is there maybe a study guide that I can use with this book to work with her one on one.
Thanks Karen

2 On Jun 25th, 2007, at 1:07pm, Amber Chesser wrote:

Karen,

Thanks for listening to the program. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a study guide that goes specifically with the Five Love Languages of Children.  However, Dr. Chapman does have a variety of other resources available at FiveLoveLanguages.com

Amber Chesser

3 On Oct 25th, 2007, at 11:28am, Brad O'Brien wrote:

I am in Iraq now. My kids have ea had a birthday in the year I have been here. They are now 7 and 5.
My wife and I read your book “The Blessing” while we were dating and engaged.
Already my two daughters are unique and very different personalities. I hope to read this book and gain insight.
As T S Elliot wrote “Nothing can be loved too much but everything can be loved in the wrong way”
So true
Thanks for your insightful contributions

4 On Mar 5th, 2008, at 8:59am, Micha O`Neil wrote:

I`m a mother of 2 wonderful kids! After having taken in consideration the Love language, my life has dramatically changed. I love my son and daughter(11&9y;.o.)and they love me back! It is very interesting to seek our children`s way of loving for one another, and perpetuating that cycle for their/our happiness! Sometimes life gives us its true meaning through love.

P.S. Don`t be afraid to kiss your children…it`s no taboo for them!

5 On Apr 19th, 2008, at 2:42pm, Jane Smith wrote:

Thank you for valuable information. I have Gary Chapmans book (5 Lang./children) that is extremely helpful in the Christian Education dept. of our church. I appreciated the comments made on how this can be implemented in the classroom setting. We will be using the book in a portion of our sunday school teachers training session this month.
I enjoyed the dialogue between Gary C. and your radio host. Very good insights and persprectives.
Thank you.

6 On Feb 10th, 2009, at 10:17pm, KristenSharp wrote:

We are doing a group bible study at my son’s preschool on The Five Love Languages of Children and I am LOVING it!  I did find a study guide at http://www.moody.edu/mp/promo/garychapman/free_res_land/index.html
or you can put in five love languages study guide in the Google or Yahoo search engines and it will come up.  I printed it out for our study leader, but am finding it very helpful while I read each chapter, too.
I will definitely be finding Dr. Chapman’s other books to study after this one is done!

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